The Epic of Gilgamesh and the flood story of Noah, both have their similarities and their differences. In both stories a great flood takes place, you could call it God’s or the gods’ great purge. In the Epic of Gilgamesh the gods wanted to wipe out mankind because they were too noisy and the gods were not able to sleep. I then thought to myself that this wasn’t a good enough reason to kill off mankind. If they were all powerful gods couldn’t they have somehow blocked out all the sounds of mankind or even send some kind of warning to the people?
The god Ea revealed to Utnapishtim, by speaking to the walls of his house, that the gods were to rid the earth of all humanity by means of a flood (Gilgamesh, tablet XI). Both floods were to be global in size, not only killing humanity, but also all wildlife as well. These similarities are easy to see, but there are even more. To escape the impending flood, both Noah and Utnapishtim built a vessel, or an ark, as instructed by a higher source. “Tear down the house and build a boat!
Utnapishtim flood story: 1. What is the god’s motive for sending the flood? The great god was woken up and so when Enlil heard that he said to the other gods in council that he could no longer sleep. All the gods decided to exterminate all mankind. 2.
Gilgamesh traveled to see this man and hear his story, and it is his story that forms the flood narrative component within the Epic of Gilgamesh. On the surface, the two texts do share numerous similarities, the most obvious of which concerns the fact that both stories feature a catastrophic flood that destroys mankind. In the book of Genesis, God says to Noah, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the Earth” (Genesis, 6:4, pg. 14, verse 7), as well as further saying, “I am going to put an end to all people” (Genesis, 6:4, pg. 14, verse 13).
“Nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God”(Bible). Another example of Christian influence is the character Grendel. “Descended from the race of Cain, Grendel bore the age old curse, the mark of murder, of his death-dealing ancestor” (Rosenberg). Cain, who was the first born son of Adam and Eve, was cursed for murdering his brother Abel. “A mark was put upon him to warn others that killing Cain would provoke the vengeance of God, that if someone did something to harm Cain, the damage would come back sevenfold” (Wikipedia).
With countries having their own set of laws some different in every country and to their cultures. Some have the death penalty and some have fines, it just depends on what went on in the situation. The Code of Hammurabi was the first known set of laws in 1780 BC and the second known set of laws were the Roman Twelve Tables in 450 BC. These laws were created in the Mesopotamian era, and they were most successful. These laws are what we have used to create the laws today, without having the Code of Hammurabi and The Roman Twelve Tables; the rules today could have been completely different.
Jack Shorb Contradictions in the Bible In the view of the Jewish faith, God is all knowing and omnipotent. Throughout the Bible contradictions are made with what role God plays in human’s decisions. In the story of Noah and the flood, God floods the world to wipe out everything except for a pair of every animal and human. If God is all knowing, he knew that the world he was creating was going to turn to a point where God would become frustrated enough to kill everyone. Why than did God create the world only to destroy it.
DEVASTATING WALKER RIVER FLOOD! In the last couple of days California and Nevada have suffered the worst floods in living memory! Normally the river flows at 650 cubic feet per second, however in the past week the river flowed more than twice that and at a devastating rate that destroyed everything in its path, including lives of two people. The flood also inundated 63,000 acres of land and cost millions in damage and additional costs due to disruptions in travel and business. The Walker River begins at a confluence where the tributaries of the West and the East Walker Rivers meet.
The most deadly hurricane was on September 8th, 1900 in Galveston, Texas. Hurricane Katrina was the worst storm in the past decade to hit the U>S>, and caused lots of damage and got the people mad at the government. On August 23rd 2005 the hurricane started off as a tropical depression, but the next day it became a tropical storm. Its wind speed increased from 75mph, to 80mph, to 90mph, to 125mph in a few days’ time period. According to an article from NCDC “…Katrina reached maximum wind speeds on the morning of Sunday August 28th of over 170mph…”Since hurricanes form in warm waters some scientists have another reason for Hurricane Katrina’s power.
The Noahic Covenant made at Mount Ararat is a result of God regretting his creation and sending a flood, and is within the context of His favouring Noah and relenting of his anger to save Noah and part of his creation through ordering him to build an ark. The flood destroyed many creatures, leaving only the ones saved by Noah. God makes this Covenant between Himself and Noah, and Noah’s offspring (Gn. 9:9) and all the creatures that were saved in the ark. God states that as long as the Jewish people follow his laws and worship him, he will never again send a flood to Earth.